RIGHT TO WORK
WATERSIDER’S CLAIM. [per press association.] CHRISTCHURCH, June 9. A claim for £lOO was heard' by Mr Young, S.M.p at the Lyttelton Court this morning, plaintiff being Harry Hutson, watersider, who alleged that five employers of labour had combined to injure him in his calling. Defendants were Arthur Knight Dyne, stationmaster, Lyttelton; Robert C. S. Kipage, agent for the New Zealand Shipping Company; Walter Scott, master mariner; Joseph Garrard, branch manager for Kinsey and Co., and Thomas Henry, wharf superintendent for the Union Company, all of whom denied combination in refusing to give plaintiff work. Counsel stated that in March plaintiff was bound over on a charge of assault. He had thown a knife along a table. The knife unfortunately struck the foreman, ancT plaintiff was charged with assault. Magistrate Mosley had then stated the case was not as serious as it appeared. The defendants had considered the penalty imposed not sufficiently severe, and plaintiff had thus been unable to obtain work. (Proceeding.)
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 June 1933, Page 2
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